Matilda Dress in Turmeric Mala

Our comfy Matilda dress in Turmeric Mala offers room to grow and is made from smooth organic cotton with coconut shell buttons on the back. Each colour of the motif is carved onto a separate wooden block in India and then each colour separately printed onto our fabric by hand using traditional methods.

Motif + colourway: This beautiful motif is a traditional Indian kalamkari design. Printed in our signature colourway of turmeric, red and a little bit of blue, our Turmeric Mala colourway was named ‘turmeric’ as it’s reminiscent of the mustard coloured spice used widely in Sri Lankan Sinhala cooking and traditional ayurvedic medicine. ‘Mala’, a play on words, means flower in Sinhala, but means ‘bad’ in Spanish. We feel that this name embodies the design; Beautiful, fun, playful and maybe a little bit cheeky!

Fabric: Organically grown cotton, hand block printed, AZO free eco friendly dyes

Made:  In India under fair trade working conditions

Care: Gentle machine wash cold using mild detergent. Do not scrub. Line dry in shade.

* Please be aware that block printing does contain what some might consider ‘imperfections’. These are not faults, but sign of the human process by which the fabric was printed. We believe these slight differences give our items character and evidence the wonderfully human element present during their making.